Professor
My research is concerned with understanding the collision between two heavy ions of high energies. By looking at these collisions, we are trying to find new phenomena that may occur when nuclei are compressed to high densities. These phenomena include the production of quark matter, pion condensation, and the appearance of a density isomer or Lee-Wick matter. Using statistical mechanics and thermodynamics, the distribution of products in relativistic heavy ion collisions has been studied. The formation of composite nuclei has been formulated in the same framework that accounts for the formation of the elements under explosive conditions as in supernovae explosions and in the big bang.
Revised September 28, 1995